Food Safety & Quality

To assess the quality and safety of food supplies around the world, we offer industry-leading solutions for characterizing nutritional components within food and agricultural products and detecting risks to human and animal health. Our instruments and informatics solutions are used extensively by researchers throughout the food and beverage industry to:

Detect harmful levels of toxins, heavy metals, and pesticides

Ensure accurate labeling and compliance with regulations around the globe

Evaluate the quality of raw materials prior to food processing

Meet targets for nutritional content

Maintain standards for flavor, aroma, and consistency in food and beverages

Understand how food packaging effects the food it contains

Data tracking and analysis of food production process

From helping suppliers develop and confirm certificates of analysis to conducting internal quality studies of raw, in-process, and finished products, we enable food companies to focus on developing innovative food products while ensuring regulations and quality standards are met.

Organic Toxins

Mycotoxins, such as aflatoxins, in food are extremely harmful to both humans and animals. To effectively test for these dangerous toxins, we offer a total solution -- utilizing our Altus™ HPLC instrumentation, columns, and standards. With a complete chromatographic workflow, your laboratory will be well equipped to detect organic toxins in a full spectrum of complex food matrices.

POPs, like PAHs and dioxins, may contaminate the food supply through intentional and inadvertent chemical production. Once they have entered the environment, these chemicals are known to contaminate food products by traversing great lengths through air or water. Using our trusted GC/MS technology, you can ensure food products at every stage of the supply chain are safe from these toxic chemicals.

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Pesticides and Residues

For rapid screening of food matrices to detect the presence of pesticide residues, our chromatographic technologies are trusted throughout the industry.

Pesticides contaminate many foods – especially fruits and vegetables -- during the growing season through soil, water, and air, indirectly or directly. With residual levels regulated for human health and safety, short analytical turnaround times are critical to providing the necessary information required to make rapid decisions about food safety. PerkinElmer’s gas (GC) and liquid (LC) chromatography instruments are equipped with the ability to screen samples prepared using “QuEChERS” (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged, Safe)sample preparation as defined by many regulatory bodies, such as the AOAC.

Nutritional Analysis

For accurate analysis of the nutritional content in food products and compliance with labeling regulations, food producers around the world turn to analytical solutions from PerkinElmer and Perten (a PerkinElmer company).

Our instruments help food companies ensure that ingredients meet Certificate of Analysis (COA) specifications, guaranteeing proper consistency and nutritional levels. They also support the confirmation of food label claims, making sure that the nutritional content in the food matches what is stated on the product label. Applications span a wide range from infant formula to highly-processed food products.

With precision measurement capability and rapid turnaround speeds, our analytical solutions are the preferred option for obtaining the nutritional information required in the food industry.

Cannabis Testing

Whether you are a grower, dispensary, contract lab or government lab, we provide the largest support network to help you with all of your analytical cannabis testing needs. Our wide range of instrumentation coupled with our expert support staff will get your lab up in running in no time.

Materials Characterization: PerkinElmer’s FT-IR portfolio can accurately determine potency and terpene profiles in cannabis samples, giving a quick, non-destructive, and portable test for cannabis cultivars. The technique is fast and easy to perform with a minimal cost-per-analysis

Atomic Spectroscopy: PerkinElmer’s Atomic Spectroscopy portfolio (AA, ICP-OES, ICP-MS) is the ideal choice for meeting cannabis trace metal needs, with the ability to analyze most of the elements in the periodic table and a wide dynamic range, spanning part-per-trillion to part-per-million levels. This range means that trace contaminants as well as nutritionally significant elements can be measured during the same analysis.

As part of our cannabis testing solutions, we provide analytical instrumentation for the following application areas:

Technology Type

The Spectrum Two N™ is a high-performance, yet robust and transportable FT-NIR system platform enabling simple, reliable NIR analyses. It’s the perfect system for labs that need to combine high-end performance with the ease-of-use features of a portable instrument, allowing users with different levels of expertise, from novice to seasoned professionals, to be proficient with it in no time

PerkinElmer’s NexION® 2000 is the most versatile ICP-MS on the market, featuring an array of unique technologies that combine to deliver the highest performance no matter what your analytical challenge.

Discover the effortless versatility of an instrument that makes it easy to handle any sample matrix, any interference, and any particle size.

PerkinElmer’s new Avio® 500 is a truly simultaneous, dual view, and compact ICP-OES. It utilizes a vertical plasma and is engineered to handle even the most difficult, high-matrix samples without dilution, delivering productivity, performance, and faster return on investment.

Built to run hundreds of pesticides in one run, with the utmost sensitivity and efficiency, the QSight™ Pesticide Analyzer is the only instrument that provides 15% higher throughput than conventional systems.

For laboratories needing a high-performance flame atomic absorption (AA) spectrometer, the PinAAcle™ 900F is a flame-only system with a true double-beam design for fast start-up and exceptional long-term stability.

For laboratories needing a high-performance furnace-only atomic absorption (AA) spectrometer, the PinAAcle™ 900Z is a longitudinal Zeeman system with a true double-beam design for fast start-up and exceptional long-term stability.

PerkinElmer’s new Avio® 200 is a compact ICP-OES that combines a vertical plasma design with a host of unique hardware features to handle even the most difficult, high-matrix samples without dilution, delivering a whole new level of performance and flexibility to ICP.

Replace labor-intensive and unreliable paper-based processes in biology discovery with our intuitive, flexible, and collaborative Electronic Laboratory Notebook. The efficiencies you gain enable your researcher spend more time on science by minimizing the time they spend collecting, collating, analyzing and managing data.

Enhance the productivity of all the chemists in your lab. Our E-Notebooks for Chemistry provide the state-of-the-art in ELN technology for data capture, archiving and intellectual property protection in chemistry.

Quickly uncover insights into your R&D data with easy to use and easy to build TIBCO Spotfire® dashboards. Whether you are a part of Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, CRO, Food & Beverage, Agriculture or Energy Industry, TIBCO Spotfire can empower your team or your entire organization to easily mine scientific and business data and gain insights, in real-time. With TIBCO Spotfire, you can Import data from disparate sources, visualize and gain insights in minutes!

PerkinElmer Signals™ Lead Discovery lets researchers focus on science, not software. Powered by TIBCO Spotfire® analytics and visualization software, the Signals for Lead Discovery platform frees researchers and scientists to explore the data they want, when they want, how they want. A guided search and analytics experience leads to faster insight and decision making. Instant feedback on the availability and quantity of data reduces the time spent running queries, while the guided analysis workflow leverages industry best practices for discovery and insight. The intuitiveness of Signals for Lead Discovery means more time for critical thinking.

Unparalled Business Intelligence for Science

As TIBCO’s exclusive reseller of Spotfire for scientific and clinical R&D applications, we enable your organization to seize new business opportunities and avoid risks with unmatched speed and flexibility. Using interactive dashboards, visualizations, and predictive and event-driven analytics, you can develop unexpected insights immediately on any device. Spotfire is an enterprise-class analytics platform that helps both business and technical users quickly explore data to develop actionable insights, without requiring IT intervention.